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from other Yearly Meetings, that stockholders resident near the College should represent them on the Board, (as has been the case in some instances of late years) there would seem to be no valid objection thereto. On the contrary such a course, preserving the representation and interest of such yearly meeting, would appear to be proper and right. But to take away the right of representation from them is a very different matter, and might alienate a large body of interested friends from Swarthmore, and reduce it from a national to a merely local college. Such a course is undoubtedly fraught with danger.

While I am convinced that both prudence and justice require that the control of the ownership of the property-that is its purchase or sale-should rest in the hands of those who hold the stock, in proportion to the amount of their holdings, I am equally convinced that safety and the highest and best interests of the Institution, demand that the principle laid down by the founders, under a deep religious concern, and which has worked well thus far in praçtice-that of personal or individual representation in all other subjects of the management,-should be maintained as one of the cardinal points, as against that of control by stock or money.

The whole subject is commended to the careful consideration of Friends at this time.

Philadelphia, 11th mo. 16, 1885.

ISAAC H. CLOTHIER.

NEWS OF FRIENDS.

NOTES FROM CANADA.

Editors INTELLIGENCER AND JOURNAL:

THE

HE information about Friends in the different localities, as found in the INTELLIGENCER AND JOURNAL, has been interesting, and I have thought a few notes from this part of the vineyard might be of interest also.

In anticipation of the change which our new discipline enforces after the next yearly meeting, in reference to holding all our meetings for business in joint session, Pelham Half-Yearly Meeting, and Norwich Monthly Meeting and its preparatives have already made the change, and will be held hereafter with open shutters.

I have a suggestion to make in reference to this subject of revising our different disciplines, which has been and is still agitating the minds of Friends, and that is that our Society have but one discipline, instead of seven as at present.

Any growth in our organization is of interest to its ministers and a source of encouragement. A number of years ago a few families settled in a district, new but fertile, twenty miles west of Lobo Meeting, and twelve miles from Lake Huron, and by the addition of one or two more families a little meeting was started, which for several years was held under the care of a committee appointed by Norwich Monthly Meeting. By a slow but steady increase in numbers and spiritual growth a preparative meeting was established two or three years ago, known as Arkona Preparative Meeting. Two families were added to their number during the past year by re

quest. At a recent monthly meeting a proposition was made and united with to appoint a committee to visit the several families composing the meeting and give them such encouragement as way might open for. Three weeks ago the committee, consisting of eleven members, met there and performed the labor of love-visiting the families and attending their meeting on First-day, which was large, and we felt it to be a profitable season. The weather was delightful. The country looked thrifty and full of promise. Its people were kind, openhearted, generous. The mellowness of "October days" was about us, which, blending with the influence of divine love made it a season not soon to be forgotten. I believe more of such pastoral work in our Society would be blest. Coldstream, Ont., Eleventh month 12.

S. P. Z.

[Our correspondent's account of the growth at Arkona is both interesting and encouraging. And we have no doubt at all of the correctness of his closing remarks.-EDS. INTELLIGENCER AND JOURNAL.]

NINE PARTNERS QUARTERLY MEETING. Editors INTELLIGENCER AND JOURNAL:

As I have always taken a deep interest in reading the accounts of different meetings, as reported from time to time, I thought a few items concerning our own might be in place, also. Nine Partners Quarterly Meeting assembled at Oswego, N. Y., on the 2nd of Eleventh month. On the preceding day, (First-day, 1st inst.), at the meeting for worship, at 11 o'clock, the house was well filled, it being generally known that Friends from abroad would be with us. The day was gloomy and chilly, but all seemed satisfied that we had been fed from the master's hand. In the afternoon we rode seven miles to Pleasant Valley village, where Margaretta Walton had appointed a meeeting at 3 o'clock, and found the meeting gathered in respectable numbers, composed of various elements. Some restlessness was at first manifest, but M. soon arose, and a deep silence prevaded the assembly. In her language of love and charity, she was enabled to address all those different states and conditions to the pulling down of all the strongholds of sin and Satan, and the building up in that faith that works by love to the purification of all hearts. The meeting closed and much satisfaction was expressed by those not of our faith and fold, who wanted us to come again. We returned to our several homes to prepare for the meeting on the following morning.

The meeting for business on the 2d, assembled at the Eleventh hour. On reading the reports from our monthly meetings, the representatives were all pres ent except one, for whom reason was assigned. Certificates for Friends in attendance from other meetings were then read: one for Margaretta Walton, a minister, issued by Fallowfield Monthly Meeting, Pa., and approved by Western Quarterly Meeting; one for George Thompson, an elder, and Sarah M., a member, both of New Garden Monthly Meeting, Pa., companions to Margaretta Walton; and one for Stimonson Powell, a minister, and his wife Mary Powell, a member, and his companion, issued by

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TEMPERANCE CONFERENCE AT LONDONGROVE. A TEMPERANCE Conference was held at Londongrove on the 18th ult., under the care of the committee of Western Quarterly Meeting, at which the usual amount of interest was shown in the various ways of pushing forward the total abstinence movement. While it was thought these monthly conferences have been productive of much good, by comparison of views and keeping an awakened interest among us, the query arose whether the time had not come for them to take up more definite methods of work, and accordingly a committee was appointed to consider the subject, and, if in their opinion advisable, report some plan of action for these conferences, to the quarterly meeting committee for its judgment. An interesting essay was read by Patience W. Kent, which was considered worthy of publication. It was announced that the next conference appointed by the committee, to be held at New Garden, the 15th of the present month, was called especially in the interest of the children. First-day schools and interested persons were invited to contribute exercises to make the occasion profitable. E. W. P.

[The foregoing reached us somewhat too late for use last week, or we should have been glad to print it in time to be of some use in announcing the Conference on the 15th.-EDS. INTELLIGENCER AND JOURNAL.]

ADDITIONAL VISITING COMMITTEES. THE additional sub-committees, appointed on the 30th ult., by the general visiting committee of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, are as follows:

Philadelphia Q. M.: Henry T. Child, Louisa J. Roberts, Sarah Griscom, James V. Watson, Jesse Webster, Watson Tomlinson, Margaretta Walton, Mary

M. Thomas.

Burlington Q. M.: Isaac Eyre, Joseph Powell, Joseph B. Livezey, Joel Borton, Jr., Martha Dodgson, Jesse Webster, Sarah Griscom, Jane D. Satterthwaite, Wm. Wade Griscom, Lydia H. Hall.

Haddonfield Q. M.: Ellwood Michener, Edmund Webster, Louisa J. Roberts, Matilda E. Janney, Abigal R. Paul, Henry T. Child, Dr. Wm. C. Parry, Clement M. Biddle, S. Robinson Coale.

THE FIRST-DAY SCHOOLS.

Report of the" Concord Union," held at Willistown 10th mo. 10th, 1885, to the Philadelphia F. D. School Association, held at Philadelphia, 11th mo. 7th, $1885: Nine Schools report 292 adults, 535 children; of

addition to this, Peace and Temperance Tracts are distributed occasionally in some of our schools.

Most of our schools reports that "Teachers' Meetings" are held regularly, and they attribute much of their success to this important feature. One school reports that they edit a paper which is read at these meetings, another that they have organized a social and literary society in connection with the school, with the object of promoting a greater interest of Friends in the Society as well as in each other.

The Springfield Sewing School send us an interesting report of its doings, and state that in addition to the free distribution of garments, they distribute a large number of pamphlets, Scattered Seeds and temperance tracts among the children under their care.

The propriety of reporting our schools to the preparative and monthly meetings was considered, but way did not open to take action upon the matter.

We realize in the progress of our school work, that it is a labor without end, and that we who are engaged in it need to be constantly preparing ourselves for it. We welcome all good aids, and value and use the Lesson Leaves, but feel that great care should be exercised that we do not depend wholly upon these, but in connection with them use our own gifts of reason and impression in preparing for the weekly hour with the children. In addition to these Lesson Leaves there seems to be a need of primary lessons.

We endeavor to impress the importance of the guidance of the "inward light," and trust that the understanding of this light may not be narrow or selfish, but broad and liberal, free from creeds and doctrines, governed by unswerving truth established in the heart, while the spirit of inquiry is at all times with us. We believe that due allowance for individual rights is at all times required of us, and while the largest latitude should be given in expression, we should avoid discussion that leads to prolonged controversy.

The principles and testimonies as held by the Society of Friends should be made a prominent feature of our teaching, that we may all know wherein our views differ from the popular conceived ideas of the evangelical church, especially as regards the ministry, atonement, baptism, original sin and the like.

We desire to see more fully aroused the slumbering seed of a true devotion to God, by more reverence for his works, more respect and love for humanity, old and young, more of the spirit that would "feed the hungry and clothe the naked," and less devotion to self. Happy will we be if in our endeavors we can give to our flock "a cup of cold water from the wells of truth," in the hope that it will flash upon them and back to us the radiance of God."

THOMAS B. BROWN, Clerks.
CLARA B. MILLER,

VISITS TO NEBRASKA FRIENDS.—II. Editors INTELLIGENCER AND JOURNAL:

the latter 129 are in membership with us, 111 have OUR next visit was with the friends living in the

one parent a member, and 295 are not members. There are 3379 books in the several libraries, 500 copies of Scattered Seeds are distributed monthly, in

vicinity of Bennett, in Lancaster county, Neb.,

18 miles south-east of Lincoln, the capital of the State. This is the part of the country where the late Jesse

Holmes endeavored to impress capitalists with the necessity of purchasing lands while cheap, for the purpose of encouraging Friends moving west to locate, but was not successful. The land is now about all settled up with an enterprising people, and has trebled in value. It now appears to us our best opportunity of getting Friends to locate near each other is passed. It is a beautiful rolling country and equal in fertility to any we visited. There are several families and parts of families of Friends, residing here, also several in full unity with us, but not members; they expressed a willingness to cast their lot with Friends in the organization of a meeting. We visited all these, except one family, at their homes, and the cordiality shown us was evidence of the love they have for the Society, in which in former years their lots were cast. As to one friend we omitted to visit, we regret that we did not persevere through a little inconvenience to do our duty, after having gone so many hundred miles for that very purpose. The Friends and their neighbors have been holding meetings at the school-house, and at other times at their houses alternately, but at the time of our visit these were discontinued. They are renewing the efforts to hold meetings at their homes again. One great need is a meeting-house. We think they have the necessary element for a regular meeting, and a house of worship would be an inducement for others to settle in their vicinity. We attended an appointed meeting at the school-house which was filled with an attentive audience. Tenth month 5, David Swany and Moses Brinton (the latter a Friend from north of Lincoln) joined us at William L. Dorland's, with several others, in a conference to advise ways and means to encourage us all to a more zealous work. We attended one public, and four house-meetings, and felt it was good to be there, believing that the good Shepherd was with us. On Third-day the 6th, our kind friends William and Mary Dorland started with us to make several visits to families living several miles north-west of Lincoln. Tenth month 7th, held an appointed meeting at the house of our friend Moses Brinton; there was evidence that the good spirit prevailed. It was not our privilege to meet several of the friends in this section. It is our judgment that there are a sufficient number in and around Lincoln to organize and keep up a meeting to the credit of the society. Moses Brinton and I visited the Governor of Nebraska, James W. Dawes, a man of about 40 years of age, who gave us a cordial welcome. During the brief interview he queried after the condition of the Indian school which we had visited. The country surrounding Lincoln is quite rolling, and we thought could be had at a very reasonable price ranging from 30 to 50 dollars per acre. Although not noted for its farming facilities, this year the corn crops are fine. The great salt basin on the north-west presents a white appearance. Salt works are in operation which bid favorably as an enterprise.

Our next point was Endicott in Jefferson county, where we arrived in the evening of the 8th, and were conveyed to our friend Ira Bedell's, who lives a few miles north-west of Endicott. As at other places met with a cordial welcome. The following day we

made several visits to Friends here. This is a beautiful and very productive part of the State of Nebraska. ABEL MILLS. Mt. Palatine, Ill., Eleventh month 12.

COMMUNICATIONS.

OUR SOCIETY'S NEED.

Editors of INTELLIGENCER AND JOURNAL:

WE

E hear much said about the lack of interest in our Society, the non-attendance of meetings by our members, and the loss of membership. Many causes are assigned for the decline; and many remedies suggested. All these suggestions are good. Yet it may be that the first thing for us to consider is, is it a religious society we are desiring to hold up; viz.: a belief in the being and perfections of God, in the revelation of his will, power or spirit to man; true godliness or piety of life, with the practice of all moral duties? Or is it a moral society only we are supporting?

We hear it charged that there are those among us who depend too entirely on the spirit or light of Christ. I will ask the question: "How much light will be sufficient for this advanced age?" At the rise of the Society, George Fox and others called the people "to mind the light;" and they were not restricted in their effort to secure the fulness of it. "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in Heaven is perfect," was held up to view. Where is the difference, now? With the advance in mental and moral culture, is there less need of the spirit than there ever has been? If this be affirmed, then at the present rate of advance, how long will it be until we will consider that we can live without the spirit? And when we have built our structure on the foundation of morality, and stocked it with all that is entertaining and attractive to our natural desires, will we then not find that our building and its machinery is of little avail without power to run it? Believing that the time has come to reäffirm our faith in "the light," may we endeavor to build our church on the rock of its revealing.

MILTON'S "PARADISE LOST." Editors INTELLIGENCER AND JOURNAL:

J. P.

I FEEL it to be a matter of regret that "The Swarthmore Circle," which is about organizing in West Chester, proposes to take up for its reading, Milton's "Paradise Lost." I feel this work to be entirely inconsistent with the views of Friends,-it representing our kind, loving, and merciful Heavenly Father as a fighting Jehovah, unmercifully wreaking vengeance upon those who he is made to appear as having foreordained to hell.

There is also a false representation of Jesus in this work. He is made to appear to be alive many centuries before he was born, and the mighty Jehovah having all power, sends him forth as his glorious Son to do his bidding as it pleases him.

If, in reading this work, "The Circle" seeks for the truth, I trust God will show it. For, “Seek and ye shall find," is the glorious exhortation and promise. W.

For Friends' Intelligencer and Journal.

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DUTY.

“IF he tarry till I come

What is that to thee?"
This the language of the Master,
With-"thou follow me!"
Follow then where'er He leadeth,

Whether in the narrow way
Far from earth's alluring pleasures,
Yet implicitly obey,
Waiting not while others tarry

Waiting till the call they hear
To go forward in the labor

While thy own to thee is clear;
While the Master is preparing

For a mission that may bring
Joy and peace to souls aweary,
And regards thy offering
As a gift upon the altar

Which He hath prepared for all
Who in self-contrition humbly
For his help sincerely call.
Look around, distress awaiting!

Not unmoved the pitying eye
Can behold the poor and stricken-
Cannot pass them idly by;

Where the heart is wrung with anguish,
Where are felt the pangs of grief,
There can pity, love and mercy

Render soothings of relief.

Everywhere the world presenting
Sadly many a scene of woe,
Consequent upon the evils

Of cupidity below

Evils which through vain ambition

By its power have widely spread
Miseries-ay-and untold sorrows

That have down to darkness led.
Then the need for all to labor,

Wisdom guiding by her laws,
And Humanity calls loudly

In her life-ennobling cause.
So fulfilling all the pointings

Duty opens for each day,
No misguiding of thy footsteps

Leading from the right astray;
But the path thou art pursuing

Israel's Shepherd will attend,
Till a sure requital promised

Crowns with peace and joy the end.

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With books, and friends, and logs piled high and

higher,

Let old king winter come.

-IONE L. JONES.

A MISSIONARY'S COURAGE.

R. JACOB CHAMBERLAIN some years since started with a few faithful native helpers on a missionary tour into the interior of India, resolved to carry the Gospel as itinerants to the towns and cities where no mission stations were planted. In the course of his journey he came upon a walled city, and, fatigued with his expedition, sat down to rest outside the city walls, while his helpers went in, I believe to obtain some provisions. They presently returned, saying that it would be impossible for them to enter the city and preach the Gospel there. " Why so?" asked Dr. Chamberlain. "Because," was the reply, "the news of our coming has been noised abroad, and the Brahmins have aroused a mob which is now gathering, and which is resolved that if we enter the city we shall not leave it alive." Dr. Chamberlain's fatigue disappeared at this intelligence, and, rising, he prepared to enter the city. "We took," said he to his helpers, "a solemn vow upon our knees before we started upon this journey, that we would leave no town or city on our way without giving the Gospel message. I am going in to fulfil my vow; you can follow me or wait outside as you prefer." They followed him, In the center of the city was the great temple, a broad avenue leading up to it from the city gates. As Dr. Chamberlain and his companions walked up to this avenue the people streamed down the side streets and thronged up surging after them. When Dr. Chamberlain had reached the temple steps over a thousand were gathered in the square before him, many of them with threatening faces and scowling brows, while on the outskirts he could see men who had gathered stones and were urging each other on to begin the assault. He took his stand with his back against one of the great pillars of the temple, that he might not be assaulted from behind, and then spoke with a loud, clear voice so that all could hear: "I have a secret," he said, "which I have come to tell you. I see that you want to kill me, and I am willing to die; but first I want to leave that secret here behind me. I want to select five of your number; I will leave it with them; then you may kill me, and they shall decide whether they will repeat it to you or no." The native Indian is not without that curiosity which has been regarded as characteristic of the Yankee. The mob halted, and hesitated in its purpose, and Dr. Chamberlain assumed its consent and proceeded to execute his plan. Selecting men from the crowd by their turbans, he beckoned them to him. "You with the red turban, you with the white, you with the green, you with the blue, you with the black, come forward; the rest of you stand back! stand back!" A crowd does not readily stand back under such circumstances, and though a little space was left where the five chosen men could stand, the space was not large. Then in alow voice, not readily audible except to the five, Dr. Chamberlain began

the story of his secret. "You know," said he, "the song you sing in your temples;" and then he chanted to them, to the music which they had often heard from their own priests:

O Vishnu, all our prayers, and all our fastings, and all our services, are powerless to take away from us the burden of sin! O Vishnu! O Vishnu! Who shall lift off from us this burden of sin?"

And the people heard the song they had often heard in their temple service, and a great hush fell over them, and they listened, and Dr. Chamberlain raised his voice a little. "And you know," he continued, "the song which on the banks of the Ganges you sing;" and then he chanted a song to a more popular, a sort of Moody and Sankey Brahminical hymn:

"O Vishnu, all our bathings and all our pilgrimages are powerless to lift off from us the burden of sin! O Vishnu! O Vishnu! How shall we find relief from this burden of sin?"

And the people heard the song they sang themselves, and drew still nearer, and Dr. Chamberlain dropped the guise of secret-telling, and raised his voice so that the outermost in the circle could hear him. "I have come," he said, "to answer the question your priests ask in vain in the temple, and you ask in vain on the banks of the Ganges; I have come to tell you of one who will lift off from you the burden of sin." And he told them the story of Christ and his redeeming love; and before he left the city those who had been eager to kill him had bought eighty copies of Scriptures, Gospels, and tracts, that they might learn more about this wonderful" Lifter of the burden of sin."-The Christian Union.

From The American.

THE NEW STAR IN ANDROMEDA. HE new star in the great nebula of Andromeda, THE about which so much has been written in the past two months, is waning. There is good reason to suppose that after a few weeks at the farthest it will pass out of sight and never be seen again,—at least by the present generation of astronomers. It seems to be therefore a good time to summarise the facts taught by its brief existence.

The nebula itself must have been seen by the first careful observers of the sky. It is readily visible without any artificial aid as a hazy light lying between the W of Cassiopeia and the Square of Pegasus. It was therefore very early in the history of the telescope, about 1612, that the first Galilean glasses were turned upon it. No great addition to our knowledge was made by telescopic aid. The nebula was traced to a greater extent, and its indefinite outlines were seen to include an elliptical space, ranging in size according to the qualities of the telescope and the atmosphere; the greatest length ever seen being about four degrees. Prof. G. P. Bond, with the 15-inch refractor of the Harvard Observatory, discovered some dark rifts extending longitudinally through it; but these are seen with difficulty except with the largest instruments.

Its spectrum is continuous, without dark or bright lines, indicating a solid or liquid mass, and no con

siderable atmosphere, either like the sun's, darker than the nucleus, or like the coma of a comet, bright and light-giving. Within its boundaries have been counted some 1500 little stars, and could we view it from a less distance we would probably see that its whole mass was made up very largely of stars and meteoroids, held together by the common attraction, and closely related in their composition, structure and functions.

While the appearance of the nebula seemed to vary with every change of power applied, there has been from 1612 to the present year no evidence of any intrinsic change. The differing descriptions could readily be accounted for by the differing glasses used and the differing seeing qualities of the eyes and imaginations of the observers. Up to 1885, August 18th, no one had any valid reason to believe that the great Andromeda nebula had given any observable evidences of vitality. At this date it was examined by an English gentleman who saw nothing unusual. On the 19th, at 11 p. m., another observer saw in the centre of the nebula a new star. It was twelve days after this, during the continuance of the moonlight nights, before the official announcement came from Hortwig, at Dorpat, that he had independently seen the new star.

Since the star has come several observers have stated that the nebula, for weeks previously to this, seemed to be undergoing a change. One gentleman says, “On the 13th of August I turned to the nebula of Andromeda and was at once struck by its brightness, and thought at first I had got hold of a bright comet." Another says, "On the night of August 15th, as I was sweeping the sky with a comet eye piece on my equatorial, the Andromeda nebula passed across the field, and its brightness was such that I did not recognize it as the nebula, but thought that I had found a comet." Still another, "I was so much impressed with the aspect of the great nebula in Andromeda, the night of August 9th being marvelously clear, I was induced to make it the chief study."

These statements may mean that the nebula was in a state of activity preparatory to the formation of the star on the 19th, though too much stress should not be laid upon them, as the cause may have lain, as the observers supposed at the time, in the exceptional purity of the air.

The Hortwig discovery was telegraphed to astronomers by the recognized centres for the distribution of such intelligence, Dun Echt Observatory, Scotland, in Europe, and Harvard College Observatory, in the United States, and on the evening of September 2d many a glass was pointed to the nebula. A casual glance was all that was necessary to reveal the star. In the centre of the nebula, looking like any other stellar disk in the heavens, was a yellow star of the seventh magnitude. It remained at about this brightness for several days and then began gradually to fade.

As to whether the star was a component part of the nebula or only chanced to lie in the same line of sight, is a subject which will probably never be fully decided. The chances would seem to be in favor of the former. Its central position, the fading out of

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